Postmodernism : A Reader

by Docherty, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780231082211
• ISBN10: 0231082215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-02-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

The arguments over postmodernism are among the most important intellectual debates of our time. Going beyond the poststructuralist controversy in its interdisciplinary scope, postmodernism questions the fundamental civil, political, ethical, and cultural criteria that make criticism and theory available, necessary, legitimate, or, indeed, even possible. But given that the key texts are widely scattered, the broad range of arguments remains relatively unknown.Postmodernism: A Reader gathers in one volume a comprehensive selection of articles, essays, and statements by leading figures -- among them Lyotard, Habemas, Jameson, Baudrillard, Eco, and Rorty -- writing across the divergent terrains on which the struggles over postmodernism are taking place: in the fields of philosophy and politics, in the artistic and cultural avant-garde, architecture and urbanicity, feminism and ecology, and in the Third world. The material assembled here enables a serious and rigorous consideration of the question "Are we at -- and should we endore -- the end of modernity?"

Table of Contents

Founding Propositions

Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?

Note on the Meaning of 'Post-'

The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point

Postmodernism, by or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Modernity Compete and Incomplete

Modernity - An Incomplete Project

The Structure of Artistic Revolutions

The Last Days of Liberalism

The Fall of the Legislator

Aesthetic and Cultural Practices

Toward a Concept of Postmodernism

Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers

The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism

Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question of ends

The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra

The City of Robots

Against Intellectual Complexity in Music

Crisis in the Avant-Garde

The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s

The Negation of the Autonomy of Art by the Avant-Garde

The Sublime and the Avant-Garde

The International Trans-Avant-Garde

Architecture and Urbanicity

Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance

The Emergent Rules

The Duck and the Decorated Shed

Postmodern

Politics

Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism

Politics and the Limits of Modernity

The Condition of Post-Marxist Man

Toward a Principle of Evil

Feminism

Feminism, by Reading, Postmodernism, Meaghan Morris

Feminism and Postmodernism

Social Criticsim without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism

The Demise of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?

Periphery and Postmodernism

Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today

Postmodernism and Periphery

Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the 'postmodern' condition

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